18 December—The Republican-American has been taking some undeserved flak this past week for an editorial cartoon it ran 9 December over an informative column by Jonah Goldberg titled “Disdain for Harris was predictable.” The text dialogue of the cartoon by the Rev. Dick Wright: “Mom. What’s the difference between an antique and a piece of junk? [Mom answers:] One is the President and the other is the Vice President.”

(The Rev. Dick Wright? Yup, Wright gave up editorial—make that right-wing political—cartooning for the clergy but couldn’t keep away from brilliant illustrated political commentary. Easier to give up the cloth. Amen.)

The cartoon in question doesn’t even mention names, only high offices. But there’s no doubt whom Mom is referring to. So it’s no surprise that all the flak comes from disgruntled Kamala Harris supporters who bitch about the newspaper’s taste in publishing a distasteful cartoon, in allowing Vice President Harris to be referred to as junk.

Well, that’s precisely what editorial cartoons—as well as columns, op-eds, and letters, but not Republican-American editorials—do. And that’s precisely what Kamala Harris is. I’ve referred to her as a harpy and a harridan; and I’ve called the Biden-Harris duo as the hack and the hag. But antique and junk? Love it! And as an antique hack myself, I have no problem with the nomenclature.

As for the junk part, that Kamala Harris certainly is. All those things in fact. Sure, the Wright cartoon is nasty; but so is Kamala Harris. First time I saw Sen. Harris in action was at the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. Kamala and New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, working as a tag team, raked Judge Kavanaugh, as he was then, over the coals. You could tell that the senators were paving the way for their presidential runs and that they both delighted in goading Kavanaugh for their own purposes. Like most politicians, out for themselves.

(Brett Kavanaugh embarrassed himself with his histrionic performance, but that’s another matter. But his performance on SCOTUS has been surprisingly good, if not entirely to my liking.)

The good news is, Kamala Harris, it seems, is even less popular than Joe Biden. So the expectation—at least the hope—is, assuming the antique survives, that the Democrats will make sure the junk will never get to be nominated for president . . .